Vincent Van Gogh

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

Vincent Van Gogh

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.

Vincent Van Gogh

If… boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one’s work.

Vincent Van Gogh

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has broken the spell of ‘you can’t’ once and for all.

Vincent Van Gogh

One must seize the reality of one’s fate and that’s that.

Vincent Van Gogh

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Vincent Van Gogh